Description :

About US :

Univlane is an AI-first SaaS platform redefining how universities engage, convert, and support students worldwide. Backed by the decades-long expertise of KC Overseas Education Pvt. Ltd., we combine deep domain knowledge with modern AI engineering to solve one of the worlds highest-volume, highest-intent communication challenges.

As a Founding Engineer, you will be among the first 35 core engineers shaping the product, architecture, culture, and engineering standards from ground zero (0?1).

What Problem do we solve :

Many universities and study-abroad agencies struggle with high volume of enquiries, delayed responses, manual workload and inconsistent communication. Univlane aims to automate and standardize that ideally improving lead capture, reducing drop-offs, and increasing throughput.

For global education, where students come from diverse backgrounds, multilingual and culturally intelligent communication helps, Univlane tries to address that.

Roles & Responsibilities :

- Build, optimise, and scale backend services using Node.js, TypeScript, NestJS.

- Architect backend systems, APIs, and microservices for high performance and reliability.

- Design efficient data models, storage solutions, and caching layers for performance.

- Own end-to-end feature delivery architecture / development / deployment / monitoring.

- Improve system availability, reliability, and observability through monitoring & logging tools.

- Collaborate closely with product, frontend, design, and founding leadership teams.

- Take deep ownership of code quality, reviews, testing, and deployment processes.

- Mentor future team members and shape the engineering culture at Univlane.

What We Are Looking For :

- 4-7 years of backend development experience (Tier-1 talent preferred)

- Strong hands-on expertise in Node.js, Express or NestJS, JavaScript/TypeScript

- Solid understanding of API design, REST, microservices, authentication, security, rate limiting.

- Strong experience with databases (MongoDB or PostgreSQL) and query optimization.

- Good knowledge of queues (RabbitMQ/Kafka), caching (Redis), containerization (Docker).

- Ability to design scalable architectures and write clean, maintainable code.

- Experience with AWS/GCP or any cloud platform.